Our mascot is back and helping us "Go Green" for Earth Day. When the rains quit, I'm sure everyone will be in their yard working on that curb appeal. Here are some tips to turn that work, yes, Green!
Set your mower blades to high. The minimum height for grass is two and a half inches. Anything shorter is hard to maintain, encourages weeds and disease and requires more intervention. Longer grass also protects the roots, offering more shade and preventing water evaporation.
- Keep your lawn mover blades sharp. Dull blades will tear the grass, damaging the plant, making it require more water than healthy plants.
- Take the grass catcher off the lawn mower. The sun and rain will break down the grass clippings and reward you with instant compost or use the clippings in your compost.
- Choose well adapted and disease resistant varieties of grass such as ryegrasses and bluegrasses.
- In a drought, don’t waste water on a lawn beginning to turn brown, it will revive after normal rainfall resumes.
- Plant flowers, trees, ground cover and vegetables instead of grass. A lawn is an unnatural ecosystem. Planting one plant species over a large area encourages weeds, insects and other plant and animal life.
Also check out these great Earth Day Celebration events at Shelby Farms.
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